Sep 25 2009THERE IS NOTHING OKAY ABOUT THIS
This is a video of the government's latest flying cyborg beetles in action. That's right, ACTUAL LIVE beetles being remotely controlled via implanted electrodes. Just wait till the government gets its hands on you!
"We demonstrated the remote control of insects in free flight via an implantable radioequipped miniature neural stimulating system," the researchers reported in their new paper for Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. " The pronotum mounted system consisted of neural stimulators, muscular stimulators, a radio transceiver-equipped microcontroller and a microbattery."
The research, supported by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is part of a broader effort, called the HI-MEMS program, which has been looking specifically at different approaches to implanting micro-mechanical systems into insects in order to control their movements.
OH HELLLLLL NO. You show me one person who thinks this is okay and I'll show you a got-damn freedom hating communist. Just sayin', I saw that sickle and hammer tattoo!
Video: Pentagon's Cyborg Beetle Takes Flight [wired]
Thanks to Danny, Mycropht, Bo, Mike, Zach, Jason, Peterman and TobyRaider, who already have government chips implanted in their brains that make them irresistible to women. WHERE WAS I ON THAT, THE MAN?!

Reader Comments
1. first - September 25, 2009 12:46 PM
FIRST!!!!!
2. first - September 25, 2009 12:47 PM
i'm sooo awesomely FIRST!
3. first - September 25, 2009 12:48 PM
I bet some people HATE not being first!
4. first - September 25, 2009 12:50 PM
I would tell you what its like to be first, but you wouldn't understand...
5. Hawk - September 25, 2009 12:52 PM
No, it makes you look like an idiot.. Ok. You are first. Now what?
What a dumb ass!
6. Taylored - September 25, 2009 12:59 PM
I am not a neurologist, but that is badass.
7. ExZ - September 25, 2009 1:10 PM
I can see it now the future of warfare,remotely controled armoured gorrilla and bear cyborgs.
THATS how we beat the taliban, they have caves, we have bears, any questions?
8. Dan Halen - September 25, 2009 1:16 PM
Can anyone say "fiber optic" and "girls locker room?" Who says surveilance HAS to be for intelligence purposes only?
9. Ollie Williams - September 25, 2009 1:17 PM
You missed a quotation mark. For shame.
10. LSDiesel - September 25, 2009 1:19 PM
@4, It's not that we wouldn't understand, it's that we would be distracted by the fact that you're grunting a lot and drooling on yourself. Here, let me wipe that for you. What's that? You want me to fist you? Oh, haha, you said first again. How cute. When shall we go poopy?
11. LSDiesel - September 25, 2009 1:21 PM
I was so distracted by the drooling grunting firstard that I forgot what I was originally going to say. Out of all the things the GW has posted as scary, I think this is the first one that actually makes me a little nervous about the future.
12. not first - September 25, 2009 1:23 PM
Hey first, it takes you one whole minute to type an average of 6 words, and two minutes to type 14 words? I'm assuming only typing because it's obvious there's no thinking there.
13. Pew³ - September 25, 2009 1:31 PM
@8. I am really hoping you are a teenager or younger. Otherwise the idea of spying in a "girls" locker room sounds creepy.
Maybe you should change your name to Dan "Pedobear" Halen.
14. Taylored - September 25, 2009 1:37 PM
@13
Old women have locker rooms too... and saggy boobs.
15. B - September 25, 2009 1:37 PM
"I swear I don't know why all those political dissidents keep getting bitten in their sleep by black widows...damn shame, is what it is."
16. Dishy Dishyington - September 25, 2009 1:43 PM
@13, the senior center where my grandparents live has a pool, fitness room, and ... SHOWERS. Hot showers, if you get my drift (nudge nudge).
17. a dog - September 25, 2009 1:44 PM
lol @ people that get annoyed by firsts. When you call him a name, you're just giving him what he wants. In fact, I post first as often as possible. And it's done because I know it annoys all of you. Dumb asses.
18. JADE - September 25, 2009 1:45 PM
I could have used one of these to spy on my lying cheating ex. That cold hearted, insecure, needle d*ck, balding, fat, no ass, non working piece of hampster poo. Ahhh I feel better
19. Donk Donkerson - September 25, 2009 1:51 PM
Now they just need to figure out a way to mount a tiny missile launcher to it.
20. Dishy Dishyington - September 25, 2009 1:54 PM
@1, you are awesome, awesomely first. I HATE not being first.
And Taylored@6, since you're not a neurologist your opinion is worthless. Sorry dude.
21. LSDiesel - September 25, 2009 1:58 PM
@17, as much as they like the attention, we like coming up with new and creative ways to tell them that they suck, and should probably jump in front of a train at the first given opportunity.
It's kind of a healthy Symbiosis, really.
22. Mr. cow - September 25, 2009 2:13 PM
Moo
23. Dream - September 25, 2009 2:20 PM
I thought the beetle was like a fake plastic one, then i read the post and says it was a real beetle.
Bugs are gross
24. GoSS Jerk now sterilized for your pleasure - September 25, 2009 2:22 PM
@ 21 i agree.
@ 1-4 and 17, just because you weren't breast fed as infants and you have a bad need for attention (not the kind of attention you received from your pedo uncle) and even have defend yourselves regarding your firstarded posts, we will still point out as LSDIESEL that you are drooling grunting firstards, and I may add you should gtfo, go rot in hell with BathCaptain, Brutefags and RDA (I think I actually miss RDA) …
25. GoSS Jerk now sterilized for your pleasure - September 25, 2009 2:28 PM
This post is scary... like the 5th element cockroach spy... I hate my firewall, cant see the vid
26. Conspiracy - September 25, 2009 2:36 PM
THE END IS NIGH!!! Then next thing you know they are going to start putting them in your babies!!! THE GOVERNMENT MUST BE STOPPED!!!
27. proteon - September 25, 2009 3:03 PM
I can't believe our government is a couple of teens in an empty hotel room.
28. graf zeppelin - September 25, 2009 3:11 PM
*showing off hammer and sickle tattoo on buttcheek*
29. Cinema Obsessed - September 25, 2009 3:16 PM
As much as I don't like bugs, that's just not ok to do that to a living creature.
30. NotCool - September 25, 2009 3:29 PM
This is not cool at all. But on the bright side, when I see a nasty beetle, it usually ends up squished and dead. So unless they can control a dead beetle, the uses of this aren't really all that great.
31. Josh - September 25, 2009 3:38 PM
I don't know whats lamer, someone being first to deliberatly annoy people, or people actually getting annoyed by it and thinking they're intellectual by responding to it. I think it's the latter.
If you feed a troll, you are a huge retard because you just end up making them LOL harder.
Anyway this shit is lame, anyone can put electrodes on a muscle to make it contract.
32. Livingjetlag - September 25, 2009 3:40 PM
Oh, ick!! Bugs! Ew ew ew ew ew!!! Like I didn't need enough reasons to hate skittering creeping FLYING GIANT ROACHES!!! Gah! I'm going to puke. Then I'm going to get a whole case of RAID and try to destroy a billion dollars worth of defense technology out of spite. Then puke some more.
33. Yooarel.com - September 25, 2009 3:42 PM
The person who posts first should say "I HAVE NO LIFE!" instead of "First!"
34. JFreezy - September 25, 2009 4:01 PM
The terrorists are going to have to come up with something really high tech to be able to combat these new cybugs! Oh wait................. no. They can just buy a can of bug spray or roll up their newspaper. DAMN THOSE TERRORISTS' INGENUITY!
35. Hawk - September 25, 2009 4:15 PM
To you it is just a micro battery with "neural stimuli", but the beetle is going "AAWWW FUUUCCK THAT HURTS!""
He isn't being directed, he is flying off course due to the pain!!
36. finfan - September 25, 2009 5:03 PM
@24 , are you telling me that.... You don't HATE daisy?!?! OH MY FLIPPIN' GOD NOT POSSIBLE!!!!
*hyperventilates* <--- dat iz speeled rong!?
37. Mr. Sausage - September 25, 2009 5:38 PM
@9 No, an apostrophe.
38. Jaded Icon - September 25, 2009 6:39 PM
This would be a great way to start killing hippies....
39. AdRock - September 25, 2009 7:05 PM
That is some diabolical shit!!!
40. wtf - September 25, 2009 7:26 PM
this has gone too far.
41. John - September 25, 2009 7:28 PM
Oh good. Government mind control chips. That's not a slippery slope or anything. Nope. Not a quick descent into a pit of vipers or nothing. Nope. There's no penis on that hooker, not at all.
42. Anonymous - September 25, 2009 8:53 PM
WTF H4X!!!!111!!!1!
Seriously, though, knowing the U.S. government, this technology will be completely monopolized by the military, then used to control the masses to gain even more power. Goodbye Constitutional rights, hello lifelong enslavement at the hands of a corrupt government.
43. Archer - September 25, 2009 9:33 PM
Pentagon's newest secret weapon, many millions of dollars and high grade microtechnology in the making.
Defeated by a can of bug killer.
Dibs on selling Osama the bug spray.
44. aboniks - September 25, 2009 9:47 PM
What are you guys so worried about? The worst the CIA could do with this thing is make you walk out into traffic. Oh. That would be bad, wouldn't it?
45. jackfreeman004 - September 25, 2009 11:30 PM
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46. Apeman505 - September 25, 2009 11:36 PM
Aw, that's just unethical. That's almost as bad as the rat brain in an RC car!
47. Danny - September 26, 2009 3:41 AM
Personally I thing that a freedom hatig comunist would actually support it. The NKVD could have used that to spy on people. But we all know that the KGB already has it, Beacause in soviet russia, The Beetles control you! YES they are a part of the K(MOFO)GB!
48. Nosmada - September 26, 2009 6:17 AM
Na i think this would be quite funny, the Americans could completly mess up other god loving religious countries by scaring them shitless by a plague or something, actually that might be bad they might eat the insects depending where it is :( hmmm those whomp rats are 1 step ahead yet again
49. Geekolojew - September 26, 2009 7:04 AM
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50. ciao - September 26, 2009 9:40 AM
I would have to say that this thing thar is horribly wrong. No life form should ever be negatively coordinated that would cause any form of pain. If those beetles are fine and in no pain...well thats fine then.
Otherwise.....*sneaks into lab...opens cages*
YOUR FREE!!! or you beetles are welcome to join my army. There will be cookies :D
51. G L A D I A T O R - September 26, 2009 10:10 AM
This is pretty neat. I believe they did something similar with cockroaches and electrodes mounted on their head. They were able to direct the roach using pulses to right and left sides of it's brain. To make the beetle fly in the direction you want is simply amazing!
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52. M.O.D.O.K. - September 26, 2009 3:35 PM
Yeah dude, cause the government posts shit on youtube.
dweebs.
53. kate - September 26, 2009 6:03 PM
does anyone remeber Richie rich? they thought of this then. way to go keen bean.
54. ted - September 26, 2009 8:52 PM
Yeah firstards can die. they suck. step in front of a bus, train...ya know, the whole ball of wax. but there was this one time when I set my intraweb browser to geekologie and saw the [comments 0] and it begged me to be a firstard. i couldn't resist. so that time, when I did it, it was ok.
This bug thing looks like a waste. can it carry any weight?
as far as it hurting the bug's feelings....that's rediculous. what is the lifespan of one of these? a couple days, a week maybe. considering the billions that exist at one time and not to mention (but i will anyway) the googolplex of these bugs that have ever existed, who really cares? As complex as the human brain is, it takes people years to even know what feelings mean. do you really think these things comprehend anything in their short lives? and if so, what makes you think the "bug" desires to think for itself or even be alive? A lot of bugs I see fly around and slam into hot ass lights/ fly in the road into traffic. To me it looks like they hate themselves anyway.
55. Tony Huynh - September 27, 2009 1:27 AM
This reminds me of that cockroach scene from 5th Element. Damn that's a good movie.
56. That uncle who did that bad thing we don't speak about - September 27, 2009 7:57 AM
Just imagine what this could do for your sex life!
"Stimulating middle leg....."
"Stimulating middle leg....."
"Stimulating middle leg....."
"Stimu... PEW PEW PEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
57. angelly - September 27, 2009 9:44 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2pKIEJbWvg
58. angelly - September 27, 2009 9:46 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2YYT2Xd-8Y
59. GoSS Jerk now sterilized for your pleasure - September 28, 2009 9:54 AM
@ 36 I have no problem with Daisy, i still havent seen a repeated post from her, they all have the same format but always diferent coments, i DO have a problem with MR COW.... i should have included him there with forstards and bathcaptain
60. Jim Jones - September 28, 2009 2:13 PM
@4:
I also wouldn't understand what it would be like to be retarded, but that's something else I don't envy from you.